EDMONTON RADIO: K-97 billboard banned for ‘gratuitous’ use of breasts
All the racy billboards K-97 has gotten away with over the years and “Pray for More Rain” is the one that gets banned?! That’s the scoop from Advertising Standards Canada (ASC), which has deemed the image of a large-breasted, fully-clothed woman as “offensive” and “gratuitous” and in violations of clauses 14C and D – heh, […]
FILM: New Yardbird Suite doc a labour of love for first-time filmmaker
Edmonton Jazz fans are lucky – they might’ve wound up hanging out at the Roadkill Suite. Legend has it that one fine day somewhere in the American South, Charlie Parker’s tour bus ran over a chicken, called a “yardbird” in the local vernacular. He took the deceased fowl to a nearby farmhouse and had some […]
Shatner. One name is all that is required.
How does William Shatner stay so damn young, exactly? (And Bill, if you drop dead at 80 on the day this runs, we all apologize in advance.) It’s a worthwhile question to ask, as no amount of investigation on the internet would’ve told you in advance of Sunday night’s one man show at the Shaw […]
TAG! YOU’RE IT! Fear and Loathing at the Anti Graffiti Symposium
Outside the meeting rooms at the Westin Hotel where the Anti Graffiti Symposium (TAGS) was held in Edmonton this past week, two large canvases were set up and a box with spray paint and colourful markers was placed beside them. Over the course of the two-day conference, the delegates, many of whom were police officers […]
GIGGLE CITY: Andrew Grose to live in the moment at the Edmonton Comedy Festival
Before you call “Nepotiz” on Andrew Grose for being the artistic director of the Edmonton Comedy Festival AND one of its performers, consider Graham Neil. This guy is the PRESIDENT of the Edmonton Comedy Festival, where he will appear Friday and Saturday because he also happens to be an aspiring stand-up comedian, along with the […]
Bohemia Cafe reopens with big Noise
The Bohemia Cafe is probably the only place in Edmonton you can hear “Noise.” Not noise, but Noise – a peculiar and tiny genre of music more free than free jazz, crazier than thrash metal. Some call it “experimental sound art,” because “music” doesn’t quite fit. Someone even made a documentary about Noise, featuring the […]
GIGGLE CITY: Joe Flaherty will ‘do the Count’ at the Edmonton Comedy Festival
Joe Flaherty is fine with Count Floyd being his most famous SCTV character, but he can only do it in short bursts. Not because he’s tired or anything. It’s just that there’s not much material there. “He’s not even a real vampire,” Flaherty says. Don’t worry. The 70-year-old master of sketch and improv comedy wouldn’t […]
WHO NAMED THE BAND: Deep thought behind Market Forces
A rock band is a slippery thing to name. It resists being confined by a word (or number) or three and mocks the absurd idea of having a body of creative musical work summed up by a clever catch-phrase. It cringes like a cow about to be branded. But once the name sticks – it […]
F&M seeks listeners, shuns popular scene and lets the fatigue set in
Local trio F&M knows when it comes to pop music, sometimes less is more. On its newest effort Wish You Were Here, which dropped Friday with a CD release show at the Yellowhead Brewing Company, the band has stripped its romantic folk-pop to the core. The acoustically-driven songs even leave space for creaking chairs, a […]
ARTS NOTES: King’s Speech screens for free, Fish plans AGA shindig
The immediate reaction is to assume that Hollywood has finally produced something useful, but the truth is, the King’s Speech is another great British period piece. No matter. Rule Britannia and up the Union Jack, because the Oscar-winning film’s central message, about overcoming disabilities, is educational enough that the Alberta government is willing to pay […]
